The throttling of YouTube, widely used for everything including watching cartoons and exposés on government corruption, comes amid fears that Russia will also shut down the Telegram messenger app ...

Russian lawmakers say access to YouTube will soon disappear entirely, marking the final stage of a years-long confrontation ...

The YouTube video-hosting site and app have stopped being accessible across Russia, thousands of Internet users in the country said online on August 8. The Downdetector website registered the majority ...

In December 2020, Vladimir Putin held his end-of-the-year press conference as normal. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic still raging in Russia and worldwide, the president insisted that things would be OK ...

LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - As Moscow has suppressed independent, Russian-language media, YouTube has remained a bastion of online freedom of expression, giving opposition figures a platform to air ...

July 26 (Reuters) - YouTube speeds in Russia are set to sharply decline on desktop computers due Google's failure to upgrade its equipment in Russia and its refusal ...

YouTube traffic in Russia has plummeted to just 20 percent of its “normal levels” in recent days, a leading Russian expert said, describing the situation as a “de facto” blocking of the video-sharing ...

MOSCOW — Russian internet monitoring services reported a mass outage on the availability of video hosting site YouTube on Thursday as Russian authorities step up criticism of the platform. Russian ...

WTF?! Russia seems to take pleasure in handing out fines to Western tech companies, but the latest one seems a little excessive. According to reports, a court in the country has hit Google with a fine ...

The Kremlin is trying to cripple YouTube in Russia, internet experts say, pushing some people to state-controlled domestic alternatives. But many Russians have found workarounds. By Paul Sonne ...

Russians are losing access to YouTube, the last major Western social platform freely available in the country, cutting them off from information independent from the Kremlin and alarming internet ...